X-Nico

unusual facts about oxide



Alliinase

The analogous butyl compound, syn-butanethial-S-oxide, is found in Allium siculum species.

Archibald Geikie

Dorsa Geikie, a wrinkle ridge system on the Moon, and the mineral geikielite, a magnesium-titanium oxide, are both named after him, as is Geikie Gorge in the Napier Range in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia.

Atomic layer deposition

ALD can be used to deposit several types of thin films, including various oxides (e.g. ZnO, nitrides (e.g. TiN, TaN, WN, NbN), metals (e.g. Ru, Ir, Pt), and metal sulfides (e.g. ZnS).

Barium oxide

Barium oxide should not be released environmentally; it is harmful to aquatic organisms.

Bastnäs

The chemical element cerium was first discovered in Bastnäs in 1803 by Jöns Jakob Berzelius and Wilhelm Hisinger in the form of its oxide, ceria, and independently in Germany by Martin Heinrich Klaproth.

CFCL

Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd - Australian company producing solid oxide fuel cells

Danny Pang

Danny Pang Phat (born 1965), film editor, who with his identical twin brother, film director Oxide, are known as the Pang Brothers

Denitrifying bacteria

Denitrifying bacteria form a necessary part of the process known as denitrification as part of the nitrogen cycle, their primary purpose being to metabolise nitrogenous compounds, with the assistance of the nitrate reductase enzyme, to turn oxides back to nitrogen gas or nitrous oxides for energy generation.

Desitin

Desitin Ointment, a diaper rash ointment, mainly based on zinc oxide and cod liver oil

Edison-Lalande cell

In 1880, the manufacturer De Branville and Company of 25 rue de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, Paris exploited the patent of Lalande and Chaperon to build copper oxide batteries.

Electron beam-induced current

For example, W.S. Lau (Lau Wai Shing) developed "true oxide electron beam induced current" in the 1990s.

Flox

FLOX, in chemistry, a combustion process said to reduce nitrogen oxide formation by suppressing peak flame temperatures

Four-Phase Systems

Four-Phase Systems was a computer company, founded by Lee Boysel and others, which built one of the earliest computers using semiconductor main memory and LSI MOS logic.

Gene therapy for epilepsy

Magnetofection is done through the use of super paramagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles coated with polyethylenimine.

Germanium oxide

Germanium dioxide, GeO2, the best known and most commonly encountered oxide of germanium containing germanium(IV).

Günter Wirths

The HWA eventually provided an order for the production of uranium oxide, which took place in the Auergesellschaft plant in Oranienburg, north of Berlin.

Hemerythrin

A protein from Cryptococcus neoformans (Filobasidiella neoformans) that contains haemerythrin/HHE cation-binding domains is also involved in nitric oxide response.

Jon Lowenstein

He completed a project about the impact of inhaled nitric oxide on cerebral Malaria in Ugandan Children.

Kolliphor EL

The resulting product is a mixture (CAS number 61791-12-6): the major component is the material in which the hydroxyl groups of the castor oil triglyceride have ethoxylated with ethylene oxide to form polyethylene glycol ethers.

Lead–acid battery

In 1881, Camille Alphonse Faure invented an improved version that consisted of a lead grid lattice, into which a lead oxide paste was pressed, forming a plate.

Lithium iron phosphate

Lithium iron phosphate has no known carcinogenicity whereas lithium cobalt oxide does because it contains cobalt, which is listed as a possible human carcinogen by the IARC.

Lucy Baldwin, Countess Baldwin of Bewdley

She was the founder of the Anæsthetics Appeal Fund of the National Birthday Trust Fund, and associated with the Lucy Baldwin machine for self-administration of nitrous-oxide/oxygen analgesia in obstetrics.

Mercury battery

In the United States, mercury oxide batteries were manufactured by companies including P. R. Mallory and Co Inc, (now Duracell), Union Carbide Corporation (whose former battery division is now called Energizer Holdings), RCA Corporation, and Burgess Battery Company.

Metal gate

A metal gate, in the context of a lateral Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor MOS stack, is just that—the gate material is made from a metal.

Nang

Nang, a crude term for nitrous oxide (NO2, laughing gas) when used as a recreational drug

Nitrous oxide engine

British World War II usage of nitrous oxide injector systems were modifications of Merlin engines carried out by the Heston Aircraft Company for use in certain night fighter variants of the de Havilland Mosquito and PR versions of the Supermarine Spitfire.

PFET

p-channel MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor)

Phosphorus oxide

Phosphorus pentoxide (phosphorus(V) oxide, phosphoric anhydride), P2O5

Phosphorus trioxide (phosphorus(III) oxide, phosphorous anhydride), P2O3

Quantitative susceptibility mapping

The voxel intensity in QSM is linearly proportional to the underlying tissue apparent magnetic susceptibility, which is useful for chemical identification and quantification of specific biomarkers including iron, calcium, gadolinium, and super paramagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) nano-particles.

Quickclear

First seen on the 1985 Ford Scorpio/Granada Mk.III in Europe and the Ford Taurus/Mercury Sable in the U.S., the system uses a mesh of very thin heating wires, or a silver/zinc oxide coated film embedded between two layers of windscreen glass.The overall effect when operative was defogging & defrosting of the windscreen at a very high rate.

Reactive nitrogen species

Reactive nitrogen species (RNS) are a family of antimicrobial molecules derived from nitric oxide (·NO) and superoxide (O2·−) produced via the enzymatic activity of inducible nitric oxide synthase 2 (NOS2) and NADPH oxidase respectively.

Robert Arns

R. G. Arns, "The other transistor: early history of the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor," Engineering Science and Education Journal, 7, No. 5 (October, 1998): 233-240

Rose oxide

Rose oxide also contributes to the flavor of some fruits such as lychee and Gewürztraminer.

Surface properties of transition metal oxides

The structure of binary oxides can be predicted on the basis of the relative sizes of the metal and oxide ions and the filling of holes in a close packed oxide lattice.

Thermal oxidation

Thermal oxidation of any variety produces a higher-quality oxide, with a much cleaner interface, than chemical vapor deposition of oxide resulting in Low Temperature Oxide layer (reaction of TEOS at about 600 °C).

Tungsten trioxide

2010- AIST reports a quantum yield of 19% in photocatalytic water splitting with a caesium-enhanced tungsten oxide photocatalyst.

Undressing Underwater

Undressing Underwater is the debut rock album by Rusty Anderson, originally released on Anderson's own Oxide Records in late 2003, and re-released on September 13, 2005 through Surfdog Records.


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